{"product_id":"the-moon-and-the-bonfires-paperback","title":"The Moon and the Bonfires - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCesare Pavese\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMark Rudman\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by), \u003cb\u003eR. W. Flint\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner of the 2003 PEN\/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS ORIGINAL \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe nameless narrator of \u003ci\u003eThe Moon and the Bonfires\u003c\/i\u003e, Cesare Pavese's last and greatest novel, returns to Italy from California after the Second World War. He has done well in America, but success hasn't taken the edge off his memories of childhood, when he was an orphan living at the mercy of a bitterly poor farmer. He wants to learn what happened in his native village over the long, terrible years of Fascism; perhaps, he even thinks, he will settle down. And yet as he uncovers a secret and savage history from the war--a tale of betrayal and reprisal, sex and death--he finds that the past still haunts the present. \u003ci\u003eThe Moon and the Bonfires\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel of intense lyricism and tragic import, a masterpiece of twentieth-century literature that has been unavailable to American readers for close to fifty years. Here it appears in a vigorous new English version by R. W. Flint, whose earlier translations of Pavese's fiction were acclaimed by Leslie Fiedler as \"absolutely lucid and completely incantatory.\"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eCesare Pavese (1908-1950) was born on his family's vacation farm in the country outside of Turin in northern Italy. He graduated from the University of Turin, where he wrote a thesis on Walt Whitman, beginning a continuing engagement with English-language literature that was to lead to his influential translations of \u003ci\u003eMoby-Dick, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Three Lives\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMoll Flanders\u003c\/i\u003e, among other works. Briefly exiled by the Fascist regime to Calabria in 1935, Pavese returned to Turin to work for the new publishing house of Giulio Einaudi, where he eventually became the editorial director. In 1936 he published a book of poems, \u003ci\u003e Lavorare stanca (Hard Labor)\u003c\/i\u003e, and then turned to writing novels and short stories. Pavese won the Strega Prize for fiction, Italy's most prestigious award, for \u003ci\u003eThe Moon and the Bonfires\u003c\/i\u003e in 1950. Later the same year, after a brief affair with an American actress, he committed suicide. Pavese's posthumous publications include his celebrated diaries, essays on American literature, and a second collection of poems, entitled \u003ci\u003eVerrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi \u003c\/i\u003e(\u003ci\u003eDeath Will Come and Will Have Your Eyes\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMark Rudman is the author of seven books of poetry and three books of prose. His poetic trilogy \u003ci\u003eThe Millennium Hotel\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eProvoked in Venice\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eRider\u003c\/i\u003e received the National Book Critics Circle Award. \u003ci\u003eThe Couple\u003c\/i\u003e is his most recent collection of poems. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eR.W. Flint translated, edited, and introduced \u003ci\u003eThe Selected Works of Cesare Pavese\u003c\/i\u003e in 1968 and \u003ci\u003eMarinetti: Selected Writings\u003c\/i\u003e in 1971. He has contributed interviews, essays, translations, and reviews on Italian writers to various journals including\u003ci\u003eParnassus, Canto\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Italian Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.47 x 8.12 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 31, 2002\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Literary Award (2003)\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771271774496,"sku":"9781590170212","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/87505d720ba30613f3197a7921fe82e8.webp?v=1780383998","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-moon-and-the-bonfires-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}